In Sustainability: A Love Story, Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have Internet and eat bacon. After all, who wants to listen to a short, blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway—who eats cows, drives a gasoline-powered car, who owns no solar panels—tsk-tsking them? Armed with research and a bright irony that playfully addresses the devastation of the world around us, Walker delves deep into scarcity and abundance, reflecting on matters that range from her uneasy relationship with bats to the fragility of human life, from adolescent lies to what recycling can reveal about our not so moderate drinking habits. With laugh-out-loud sad-funny moments, and a stark humor, Walker appeals to our innate sense of personal commitment to sustaining our world, and our commitment to sustaining our marriages, our families, our lives, ourselves. This book is for the burnt-out environmentalist, the lazy environmentalist, the would-be environmentalist. It’s for those who believe the planet is dying. For those who believe they are dying. And for those who question what it means to live and love sustainably, and maybe even with hope.

Sustainability: A Love Story (21st Century Essays)

Biographies & Memoirs

Walker, Nicole

Community & Culture

Mad Creek Books

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. "Part affecting memoir, part lyric meditation on water, part cultural critique, but finally about all that is unquenchable in the human experience, Nicole Walker has created a book that is truly sui generis. By turns wry, elegiac, and always elegant in its precision and force, Walker investigates all that is contradictory and curious in the micro climate of her immediate family and the macro climate of Utah to create not a dry treatise, not a windless flight of experimental prose, but a natural history of thirst in all its manifestations, at once compulsively readable and intensely personal."—Robin Hemley

Quench Your Thirst with Salt

Zone 3 Press

Poetry. "THIS NOISY EGG makes us consider a new world constructed by an intrepid 'I' armed with her own brand of sassy humor"--Cole Swenson. "This is a book of luscious verberations. Of sonic and imaginative exuberance. Of emotional and grammatical restlessness"--Bob Hicok .

This Noisy Egg

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Barrow Street Press

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 
This book is about a strange object-strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker's Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so that reproductive science and gustatory habits are considered alongside one another, and personal narrative and broad swaths of natural history jostle, like yolk and albumen. Mapping curious eggs across times, scales, and spaces, Egg draws together surprising perspectives on this common object-egg as food, as art object, as metaphor and feminist symbol, as cultural icon.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Egg (Object Lessons)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

Bloomsbury Academic

It's a great time to remove the veils of illusion. Find the truth within. Have you hidden your gifts? Are you ready to listen to your soul purpose? Consciousness is awakening around the world. What are you ready to see when you open your eyes? What is the change you desire to see develop in your life or the world? Dare you see clearly now? Do you want insight for the chance that has arrived to surrender everything as you perceive it in the present and awaken to your truth? Do you notice a calling to be a way-shower, lightworker, and emissary of kindness and hope? When the vision and the message came to face illusion, I had many questions and asked God for guidance. Grant me the grace to welcome this journey. Give me a way to recognize what I cannot change. Provide me the tenacity to take responsibility for my intentions, words, and reactions. A gathering of minds, a compelling moment when the energy brought together Nicole Walker, Jessica Mariah, Jenny Macomber, Wanda Snyder, Gabriella De Cicco, Chrisanthi Voukatidis, and Deborah Perdue. These courageous women were guided to share how their life experiences released them from fear, ego, shame, and influence their inner being to reach into the well of breath filled with their soul's essence and purpose. The dark night of the soul or shadow side provided revelations, while angel messages provided comfort to others. Awakenings that were terrifying not only globally but of the ego-mind challenged each one in the way their spiritual journey was unfolding. There is no one path or approach to awakening consciousness. Your journey is your revelation. It's not who you are that holds you back, it's whom you think you are not.

Awakening the Consciousness of Humanity: When your eyes open to see the truth

Politics & Social Sciences

Coppola, Gloria

DeCicco, Gabriella

Rose, Chrisanthi

Macomber, Jenny

Amparo, Jessica

Snyder, Wanda

Perdue, Deborah

Philosophy

Powerful Potential & Purpose Publishing

"There is no other writer like Nicole Walker for weaving a fabric that incorporates all the threads of her reality: the scientific and the poetic, the trivial and the dire, the mundane and the apocalyptic, all held together by her deep pleasure in the operations of language itself." --Katharine Coles "Like Galeano's BOOK OF EMBRACES or Weil's GRAVITY AND GRACE, Nicole Walker's MICROGRAMS portray the force of a keen mind fully engaged with disparate, successive parts of the world, which unify, reconfigure, and become new things in her strange, wondrous prose. These essays are not description or depiction but revelation; they both show and prophesy." --Patrick Madden "Though I'm tempted to applaud the micro-joys, micro-fascinations, and micro-revelations of Nicole Walker's MICROGRAMS, the truth is that this miniscule book of micro-essays offers inquisitive readers gargantuan pleasures. A micro-burst of essays, fresh and intriguing." --Dinty W. Moore "MICROGRAMS by Nicole Walker is a cause for swooning and celebration. I cleaned my glasses and caught my breath. She is a microscope and a telescope, gives us a book writ large, writ small. 'Let's go smaller,' she asks us, but never in import as, in her delightful deadpan, she leads us through life and death. Yes, it's a small world after all. And an extraordinary book about looking close, and thinking far." --David Lazar

Micrograms

Essays & Correspondence

New Michigan Press

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Environmental Studies. Hybrid Genre. Abecedarian Form. Epistolary Form. Collaborative Writing. "A" is for Australia and "A" is for Arizona, over 9,000 miles apart but sharing the same Earth. In this eccentric, intimate compendium of short environmental and personal essays, David Carlin (in Melbourne) and Nicole Walker (in Flagstaff) engage in a long-distance dialogue between two writers, creating an improvisational subversion of the encyclopedia, a witty-yet-serious send-up of the concept of a survival guide. In this era of interconnected ecological, political, and human rights catastrophes, these two whimsical, elegiac, and intellectually questing voices contemplate the role of the individual in the midst of increasingly inescapable collective action crises that call the very concept of survival into question. Refusing equally to find solace in false hopes and to give in to murky despair, Carlin and Walker deftly use the flash nonfiction form to wonder and worry their way through the alphabet in search of a path forward. With meditations on topics ranging from bitumen to plasmodia, elephants to xeric, THE AFTER-NORMAL: BRIEF, ALPHABETICAL ESSAYS ON A CHANGING PLANET collects an A to Z of people, places, and phenomena to marvel at, to kick against, to let go, and to fight for.

The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet

Carlin, David

Rose Metal Press

"Nicole Walker writes with dazzling liquidity." --ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING, author ofZoologies Nicole Walker made cheese and grew tomatoes as a means of coping when she failed to get pregnant. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, she cooked veggie burgers for friends and hamburgers for herself--to enjoy outside, six feet apart. Her Mormon ancestors canned peaches to prepare for the End of Days and congealed beef broth into aspic as a surefire cure for ailment. Throughout the richly layered essays ofProcessed Meats, Walker ponders food choices and life choices, dissecting how we process disaster, repackage it, and turn it into something edible.

Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh, and Navigating Disaster

Professionals & Academics

Torrey House Press

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